[gentoo-dev] KDE AA issues

[gentoo-dev] KDE AA issues

[Tom von Schwerdtner]

I've harassed everyone I can find about this but have not found the 
solution...so, the problem is:

1) latest kde and qt

2) AA works great when apps are launched from a term

3) AA dosent work at all when in KDE and launching apps any other way 
(menu, kicker, desktop icon)

4) this is very annoying

5) "echo $QT_XFT" comes back with '1' in konsole, and apps launched from 
konsole come up with AA.....but still not from kicker

6) setting QT_XFT=true all over the place (.csrhc, .bashrc(tried it from 
bash), /usr/bin/startkde, xinitrc) changes nothing.

7) folks in #kde have no idea what the problem is, but this is not 100% 
Gentoo specific because I had this problem on my Debian Sid box before it 
became my Gentoo box (I am fairly certain)

any ideas?

-Tom

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE AA issues

[Tom von Schwerdtner]

A google search led to a old gentoo post about kde 2.1.1 which says that 
the /usr/bin/startkde line that says:

LD_BIND_NOW=true kdeinit +kcminit +knotify

should be changed to:

kdeinit +kcminit +knotify

...this worked like a charm.

I installed from sources rc6-r11, so I dont know why the startkde was not 
modified properly...and I dont know why more people didnt have this 
problem....but if you do, that seems to be the fix.

HTH someone
-Tom


> I've harassed everyone I can find about this but have not found the 
> solution...so, the problem is:
> 
> 1) latest kde and qt
> 
> 2) AA works great when apps are launched from a term
> 
> 3) AA dosent work at all when in KDE and launching apps any other way 
> (menu, kicker, desktop icon)
> 
> 4) this is very annoying
> 
> 5) "echo $QT_XFT" comes back with '1' in konsole, and apps launched
> from  konsole come up with AA.....but still not from kicker
> 
> 6) setting QT_XFT=true all over the place (.csrhc, .bashrc(tried it
> from  bash), /usr/bin/startkde, xinitrc) changes nothing.
> 
> 7) folks in #kde have no idea what the problem is, but this is not 100%
>  Gentoo specific because I had this problem on my Debian Sid box before
> it  became my Gentoo box (I am fairly certain)
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> -Tom
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE AA issues

[Viktor Lakics]

I think a lot of people had this problem (I had it twice, with 2 different 
KDE) and Sebastian gave this solution, which I guess everybody uses already 
who wants to have AA in KDE. Supposedly this modification should slow down 
app startup, although I did not experience that...

Regards Viktor

On Friday 28 September 2001 4:44 am, you wrote:
> A google search led to a old gentoo post about kde 2.1.1 which says that
> the /usr/bin/startkde line that says:
>
> LD_BIND_NOW=true kdeinit +kcminit +knotify
>
> should be changed to:
>
> kdeinit +kcminit +knotify
>
> ...this worked like a charm.
>
> I installed from sources rc6-r11, so I dont know why the startkde was not
> modified properly...and I dont know why more people didnt have this
> problem....but if you do, that seems to be the fix.
>
> HTH someone
> -Tom
>
> > I've harassed everyone I can find about this but have not found the
> > solution...so, the problem is:
> >
> > 1) latest kde and qt
> >
> > 2) AA works great when apps are launched from a term
> >
> > 3) AA dosent work at all when in KDE and launching apps any other way
> > (menu, kicker, desktop icon)
> >
> > 4) this is very annoying
> >
> > 5) "echo $QT_XFT" comes back with '1' in konsole, and apps launched
> > from  konsole come up with AA.....but still not from kicker
> >
> > 6) setting QT_XFT=true all over the place (.csrhc, .bashrc(tried it
> > from  bash), /usr/bin/startkde, xinitrc) changes nothing.
> >
> > 7) folks in #kde have no idea what the problem is, but this is not 100%
> >  Gentoo specific because I had this problem on my Debian Sid box before
> > it  became my Gentoo box (I am fairly certain)
> >
> > any ideas?
> >
> > -Tom
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > gentoo-dev mailing list
> > gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
> > http://cvs.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev
>
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Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE AA issues

[Dan Armak]

Hi,

This is indeed a known problem. However, it does not always show up, and I 
don't know what triggers it, so it hasn't been changed by default.
The change does make kde startup times longer, but since objprelink takes 
care of the trouble, I can have the kdebase euild change that line. Any 
objections?

-- 

Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel